portmanager and use.perl port

Noah admin2 at enabled.com
Mon Mar 5 11:53:52 UTC 2007



Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:41:55 -0800
> Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
> 
>> So at times I run portmanager on many of my servers but I want to
>> make sure that the perl installed is the port and not the system
>> version.
>>
>> The only option I new about was to IGNORE building it.
>>
>> # grep perl /usr/local/etc/portmanager/pm-020.conf
>> IGNORE|lang/perl*|
>>
>> But I am wondering if there are proper settings that I can put in
>> placed to make sure that if perl is reinstalled that the port version
>> is the chosen version.
> 
> I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.
> 
> Syntax is:
> 
> Usage:
>   ./use.perl port       -> /usr/bin/perl is the perl5 port
>   ./use.perl system     -> /usr/bin/perl is the system perl
> 
> 
> 


not exactly what i am looking for.  I am trying to get portmanager to 
auto-invoke the ./use.perl port after it reinstalls perl.

cheers,

Noah


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